ISEA 2022 Launch, June 2022
Im very happy to be showing Common Thread at ISEA 2022. More info here!
Blog roll of latest activities.
Im very happy to be showing Common Thread at ISEA 2022. More info here!
https://i2insights.org/2019/04/02/arts-science-partnerships/
https://vimeo.com/267502017
Eremocene
Experimenta, Make Sense: International Triennial, 2017-20, launching at RMIT Gallery, 344 Swantson St, Melbourne (Oct 2-Nov 11), Mon—Fri 11AM—5PM, Thu 11AM—7PM, Sat 12—5PM, and then numerous venues Australia wide till 2020, Curated by Jonathan Parsons and Lubi Thomas
http://www.thejournalist.org.za/art/the-mesh-connecting-with-environmental-damage
Excited - off to Austria !
https://www.aec.at/ai/en/eremocene/
Lovely little piece from friuends at QUT ! http://nowalls.qut.edu.au/post/no-walls-meets-keith-armstrong
Are we the one? now on at Artshouse, Melbourne.. Get your comfy shoes on and walk!
About to do a talk here in South Africa with Angus Hervey as part of my PIAD/Refuture residency ..
FLYER HERE
Join our panel of researchers in a lively discussion where they each use an object to communicate the Anthropocene on a human, every day scale
The human capacity to alter the biological and physical systems of the earth has provoked a proposal for a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene.
The fundamental relation between humans and the environment is the crucial problem of our time. There is a political and cultural urgency embedded in issues such as climate change, global warming, sustainable energy, ocean acidification, coral degradation, water scarcity and pollution.
At this event we welcome Professor Libby Robin to introduce Queensland to the idea of the Anthropocene Slam. Libby argues for the importance of objects as material provocateurs in the quest to communicate the Anthropocene.
Presenters will use anything from a seashell to a water glass or an iPhone to comment on the Anthropocene, ensuring the ‘slam' is engaging, entertaining, interactive and - most importantly - thought provoking.
DATE:
Thursday, 29th October 2015
TIME:
3.00 - 4.30pm
followed by light refreshments
LOCATION:
Global Change Institute
Group Learning Space
Building 20, Room 273
St Lucia Campus
Presenters
Professor Libby Robin FAHA is an environmental historian at Australian National University and the National Museum of Australia. She is also Affiliated Professor at KTH Stockholm, and has worked to develop the environmental humanities internationally. She was part of the team in the first ‘Anthropocene Slam’ in Madison, Wisconsin, in November 2014, and CLIMARTE in Melbourne May 2015.
Dr Keith Armstrong, splits his time between being a Senior Research Fellow at QUT and an actively practicing freelance new media artist. His research focuses on how scientific and philosophical ecologies can influence the design and conception of networked, interactive media artworks. His latest show, Uncanny_Intimacy opened at the Object Gallery, Australian Design Centre in August 2015.
Dr Jodi Frawley is a DECRA research fellow in the Creative Industries Faculty at QUT. She is working on a history of estuaries and fishing communities along the east coast of Australia. In 2014, along with Professor Iain McCalman, she co-edited Rethinking Invasion Ecologies from the Environmental Humanities (Routledge).
Professor Joan Leach convenes the science communication program at The University of Queensland. Her recent ARC-funded research with Dr Maureen Burns is on popular science since the 1960s. Her research centres on public engagement with science, medicine and technology and she has been active in the Australian government's recent initiatives toward “Inspiring Australia.”
Professor Geoffrey Lawrence is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Chair of the College of Experts at the Global Change Institute, The University of Queensland. He is considered to be one of the world leaders in social science-based agri-food research. Geoffrey has been a government appointee on the Lake Eyre Basin Scientific Advisory Panel and is currently President of the International Rural Sociology Association.
Dr Dolly MacKinnon is a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at The University of Queensland, and an Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre for Excellence for the History of Emotions (The University of Queensland/The University of Western Australia). Her research background spans history and music, and focuses on analysing the mental, physical and auditory landscapes of past cultures.
| Uncanny Intimacy NOW ON interactive installation, Object: The National Design Centre, Sydney, Open Aug 28th-16th Oct. 2015
The new show Uncanny Intimacy is now forthcoming - an interactive installation at Object: The National Design Centre, Sydney, Opens Nov 27th, 2015
Siteworks Documentation up on the Bundanon Trust Site including Black Nectar
I was awarded a Vice Chancellors Award for sustained performance today! Yay. (See award)
http://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue124/11776
Artlink magazine publish a reviww of Thingworld at the National Museum of China, featuring the work Light of Extinction in the text and photos. (See PDF)
Please to note we are part of the review of Thingworld in the latest Artlink for the show Light of Extinction. See See review here. (PDF)
Just posted a short essay I wrote for Vaughan Pinxits Phd graduation show called Stillness and Stasis,
Dark Cartographies is comnfimed for Bundaberu Gallery - 27 March - 24 May 2014.
I have just added preliminary details about Black Nectar new work for the Siteworks Festival 2014, Bundanon, NSW, Australia, June 11th - July 9th, 2014, Sat.27th Sept 2014
Please attend this workshop - Noosa Biosphere, at Central Qld University, Sunday 25th May, 10am-4pm. Refer to the contact page and email registration or questions.
I have a new chapter coming out in July 1 in the Springer book, Digital Da Vinci: Computers in the Arts and Sciences bit.ly/1h8TVqX
See an update of our activities in Realtime 118 - in Scanner 2014
| Night Fall will open next weekend at the Queensland Museum Invent-ory Space, (running Dec 7th, 2013 - Jan 27th, 2014).
Our next LTNS event is at Victoria University’s Centre of Cultural Diversity and Wellbeing - celebrating the completion of their new Social Technologies Lab at the Footscray Nicholson campus on Friday, 27 September, 2013.
The Social Technologies Lab is an innovative new facility with a large custom-built visualisation screen designed to view, generate and analyse social research data in new ways.
There will be two sets of activities on this day – you can choose to take part in either, or both.
1. The Launch
The launch itself will take place at 4.00pm at the Social Technology Lab (Telford Building, Room T109). Dean of the VU College of Arts, Associate Professor Bronwyn Cran, will launch the Social Technology Lab. CCDW acting director, Professor Michele Grossman, will host the launch. Refreshments provided.
2. Walk and workshop
Beginning at 10.00am on the launch day, we will host a unique technology-powered workshop and walk led by media artist Dr Keith Armstrong from Queensland University of Technology, as part of the NBN-funded Long Time No See project (http://community.long-time-no-see.org/).
After an initial orientation workshop, participants will take an walk through Footscray guided by a smartphone “app”, taking photographs as they go. The walk aims to explore pathways into “emergent ways of existing in this world through poetic actions and relationships that animate a sense of care.” Each walker’s journey will be mapped onto an online map that the group will examine afterwards. Examples of these map will be showcased at the 4.00pm launch.
Places for the walk and workshop are limited to 15, and will be allocated in order of RSVPs. Note that you must have a smartphone (Android or iPhone) to take part, and the ability to download the app. Help to source and download the app will be available on the day.
Please send your RSVP to Polly Probert (polly.probert@vu.edu.au) by….(date), stating if you would like to attend the launch only, the walk/workshop only, or both.
Renowned writer and post colonial theorist Paul Carter has written the catalogue essay for the next showing of Finitude .. V3: Solo Showing, Screen Space Gallery, Ground Floor, 30 Guildford Lane, Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia Oct 4 - 27, 2013. (open 12-6pm Thursday – Saturday)
Pitfall appears on the front page of teh Mallee land's newspapers - Sunraysia Daily :)
Pitfall, Mildura Art Centre, 199 Cureton Ave, Mildura, Victoria, Australia, 5th Sept-27th Oct, 2013. Opening 5th September at 7pm. {Coinciding with Mildura Palimpsest Site Specific Arts Biennial, Victoria}. See Catalogue.
Here is a ful list of articles written about my work since waaay back!
http://www.realtimearts.net/mediaartarchive/archive/Australian_Artists/Armstrong,_Keith
The latest Realtime edition has a great review of Night Rage: http://www.realtimearts.net/feature/ISEA2013/11203
http://www.realtimearts.net/feature/ISEA2013/11202 written by workshop/walkshop participant Anne Phillips.
Looking forward to the luanch of our project Night Rage tomorrow at at Isea2013 at 6.30pm. Here are some preliminary pics taken skillfully by Sydney artist/photographer Alex Wisser. The piece is all about the night, nocturnality and the very edge of darkness, so these pics are positively glowing - your eyes will take a minute or two to start to see this .. so be patient ! (The rapid prototyped robotic tracking systems designed built by Mike Candy will this time remain invisible) - as the piece very much hovers on the very edge of pure darkness. Lawrence English, Michael Candy, Luke Lickfold and I hope you enjoy it - see it in the Vicki Sowry curated Anat Australia show synapse a Selection on the 3rd floor of the Sydney Powerhouse. Runs daily till 14th July.
Access the latest information on the launch of Night Rage and Long Time No See at ISEA 2013 in Sydney HERE.
The new website designed by Inkahoots is almost ready for prime time - if your reading this then its live in May 2013! A total redesign and all modern HTML standards!
Two of my works will feature in the biggest media art show in Australia in many years - ISEA 2013 in Sydney!
Long Time No See, ICE @ Paramatta for ISEA 2013, Electronic Nights/Public Workshops, Sydney, June14th-15th 2013, and online til 2015.
| Night Rage, in Synapse: A Selection, Sydney Powerhouse, for ISEA 2013, Sydney, 8th June - 14th July, 2013.
Funding Success: Today I was awarded an ANAT Synapse Art Science Residency with the Australian Wildlife Conservancy! The press release stated: The Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) is pleased to announce the successful recipients of the 2012 Synapse Residency program – a core element of the Synapse initiative of the Australia Council of the Arts and ANAT, which has enabled collaboration between artists and scientists since 2004. The Synapse initiative supports creative partnerships between scientists and artists through the residency program, a database of international art/science collaborations, an archived discussion list and the Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage program, which supports longer-term partnerships between artists and scientists in academic research settings. ANAT, in continuing its commitment to artistic innovation, is thrilled to announce that the following Australian artists have been awarded Synapse residencies for 2012:
Keith Armstrong (QLD) + Australian Wildlife Conservancy (VIC, SA, NSW)
Australia has the highest mammal extinction rate in the world – not something to be proud of. To halt this decline, the Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) acquires high ecological-value land, establishes sanctuaries and actively manages the land through feral animal control, weed eradication, fire management and the translocation of threatened species. This approach – practical land management informed by strong science – has at its heart an interdisciplinary focus that sits happily with one of Australia’s most established and successful artists, Keith Armstrong. Through a career spanning two decades, as well as his work as Senior Research Fellow at the Queensland University of Technology, Armstrong has focused on art-science and ecology-based collaborations with scientists, musicians, dancers, critical theorists and performers. With the AWC’s South-West Region Chief Scientist, Matt Hayward, he will explore ways of shifting cultural thinking to generate broad-based actions to reverse the decline of Australian habitat health and diversity.
Just back from a successful opening of Finitude (v03) , at "Information, Ecology, Wisdom" - The 3rd Art and Science International Exhibition and Symposium, Beijing, China at the National Museum of Science and Technology. Nov1-30th 2012
Finitude V3 has been chosen to show in the prestigous "Information, Ecology & Wisdom ', 3rd Art and Science International Exhibition and Symposium, National Science Museum, Beijing, China, November 2012.
Organised by Tsinghua University and China Science & Technology Museum, the 3rd Art and Science International Exhibition and Symposium will open at China Science & Technology Museum (Beijing, China) from Nov. 1st to 30th, 2012.
Quoted from invite letter..
"The 3rd Exhibition is themed at “information, ecology and wisdom”, and is targeted at collecting the most advanced research achievements in contemporary international art and science, and probing into the ultimate ideal and spirit of human beings from perspectives of information science, life science and ecological science, with the carriers of art aesthetics, biological information technology and ecological wisdom, thus exploring the unknown and creating future with brand new thinking modes and methods.
Your work will be exhibit from 1st to 30th November 2012."
Read Interview with by Lisa Gye - 'Returning Time to the Future' (Paper Version) (Online Version) in Realtime Issue #109, Jun-Julv 2012 pg. 1
Our new project – ‘Long Time, No See?’, an online and installation artwork where the public generates a vision for Australia's long-term future was awarded a prestigious Broadband Arts Initiative Award. This project connects with various communities at early National Broadband Network release sites. In collaboration with Lubi Thomas, Gavin Sade, Roger Dean, Tony Fry and Linda Carroli, and partnership with the Queensland University of Technology.
Today I was awarded an ANAT Synapse Art Science Residency with the Australian Wildlife Conservancy! The press release stated:
The Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) is pleased to announce the successful recipients of the 2012 Synapse Residency program – a core element of the Synapse initiative of the Australia Council of the Arts and ANAT, which has enabled collaboration between artists and scientists since 2004. The Synapse initiative supports creative partnerships between scientists and artists through the residency program, a database of international art/science collaborations, an archived discussion list and the Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage program, which supports longer-term partnerships between artists and scientists in academic research settings. ANAT, in continuing its commitment to artistic innovation, is thrilled to announce that the following Australian artists have been awarded Synapse residencies for 2012:
Keith Armstrong (QLD) + Australian Wildlife Conservancy (VIC, SA, NSW)
Australia has the highest mammal extinction rate in the world – not something to be proud of. To halt this decline, the Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) acquires high ecological-value land, establishes sanctuaries and actively manages the land through feral animal control, weed eradication, fire management and the translocation of threatened species. This approach – practical land management informed by strong science – has at its heart an interdisciplinary focus that sits happily with one of Australia’s most established and successful artists, Keith Armstrong. Through a career spanning two decades, as well as his work as Senior Research Fellow at the Queensland University of Technology, Armstrong has focused on art-science and ecology-based collaborations with scientists, musicians, dancers, critical theorists and performers. With the AWC’s South-West Region Chief Scientist, Matt Hayward, he will explore ways of shifting cultural thinking to generate broad-based actions to reverse the decline of Australian habitat health and diversity.
I will be presenting tomoorow on the Waterwheel project - presented for the Symposium 'Water Issues Relating to Environmental Landscape Sustainability’ – 22 March 2012 – International Water Day, Convened by the Horticulture, Landscape & Environment Research Unit of Higher School of Agronomical Sciences of Chott Meriem, IRESA, Sousse University – Tunisia.
Dear Friends and Supporters
I am pleased to announce the first showing of my new interactive installation FINITUDE (Mallee:Time) [v01].
WHERE: Room 22, The Ka-Rama Motel, Deakin Ave, Mildura, Australia for Palimpsest #08.
WHEN: 10-11TH SEPTEMBER, 10AM-5PM
Created in close collaboration with senior sound artist/composer Roger Dean (austraLYSIS), artist/designer Stuart Lawson (ex Intimate Transactions/Knowmore House of Commons) and 3D programmer Darren Pack (ex.Knowmore House of Commons).
“Time is change, time is finitude. Humans are a finite species. Every decision we make today brings that end closer, or alternatively pushes it further away. Nothing can be neutral”. Fry, T 2010
SHORT STATEMENT: Finitude (Mallee: Time) v01 is a major new media art/sculptural/sound hybrid to be premiered at the Mildura Palimpsest. Acknowledging that we as a species are finite, the work re-positions ‘time left’ as a plastic medium that we can each choose to ‘give to’ or ‘take away’ from. Resting on a motel room bed with a semi-transparent touch screen above them, participants influence 3D imagery, the movement of dioramas glimpsed through the screen and an immersive soundscape.
check out a video QUT made about me recently - the practice led researcher
Ever Met a Live Bat up Close?
Hung Upside Down with a bunch of other Bats?
Done the Bat Rap?
Bring along your family, friends & a picnic for a sunset experience
Learn about the importance of flying foxes in Australia & how to save this threatened species
Live bats & talks by scientists, batty idea-fest, wildlife documentaries, face painting & creative activities.
MC Adam Hill & performances by Tess de Quincey
Friday 29 April 2011, 5pm – 8pm
Cook & Phillip Park, Sydney
(below St Mary’s Cathedral)
FREE
www.remnantartlab.com
Presented by: Remnant Emergency Art Lab
The REMNANT/EMERGENCY Artlab has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body in collaboration with QUT Creative Industries, the UTS Research Centres for Contemporary Design Practices and Human-Centred Technology Design, Walkabout Wildlife Park and many others.
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Twitter - www.twitter.com/remnant_artlab
I was invited as a Keynote Speaker to Siteworks at Australian painter Arthur Boyds old property Budnandon and Riversdale - 3 hours south of Sydney on the Shoalhaven River. The forum is an interdisciplnary investigation into art/science and ecology.
I have begun adding lots of background information to the Artlab Blog - leading up to a series of meetings in Sydney this July to develop our second lab event (November 2010) - considering the rehousing of the bats that are soon to be moved from the Sydney Botanical Gardens.
The Mediataions Biennial we will be showing has been announced - our work Knowmore (House of Commons) will be shown alongside international artists such as Jeffrey Shaw, Luc Courchesne, Masaki Fujihata, Eduardo Kac, Christa Sommerer + Laurent Mignonneau, George Legrady and Ken Feingold. See full list here.
We have been awarded an Australia Council Artlab - working with Natalie Jeremijenko at NYU, Tony Fry, Scanz New Zealand, James Muller, Leah Barclay, QUT Creative Industries, The Edge, and a host of partners :)
2010 looks like a good year! I have received an invite for the 2010 Mediations Biennial in Poznan Poland and have been asked to develop a major interactive Festival Work, amongst many others!
I have just had a book chapter published on practice-led research written called 'Sustaining the Sustainable? Developing a Practice and Problem-led New Media Praxis' in the 2009 Edinburgh University Press book, 'Practice-led Research, Research-led Practice in the Creative Arts'.
I will be giving a Keynote Address at MATERIAL INVENTIONS: APPLYING CREATIVE RESEARCH, Deakin University, Melbourne, 30 November -1 December, 2009
The Last Generation shows at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery - opening 7th August.
Today I released a new documentary video of the Knowmore (House of Commons) project on this website. Also a full page Review appeared in Realtime about the project called "Animating the Interactive Spin" by Greg Hooper - available online or in paper format.
I will be speaking about my ideas and work at: artscience@theinterface 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009 @ the 2009 IDEAS Festival
Time: 3:30pm - 8:00pm
Location: State Library of Qld, Brisbane - Auditorium 2
A symposium, presented as part of the 2009 IDEAS Festival, that will chart the ways in which art and science gravitate towards one another within contemporary culture.
Speakers:
Dusan Bojic
Dr. Oron Catts (Symbiotica)
Dr. Keith Armstrong
Dr. Greg Hooper
Svenja Kratz
Prof. Jason Mattingley
Knowmore (House of Commons) has opened at the State Library of Queensland Brisbane and runs for 3 months - Early reports are that its been a roaring success with the public and the opening/artist talk was well attended.
The next leg of the Visions of Australia tour of Intimate Transactions has opened in Rockhampton (Central Queensland) and Gypie Regional Gallery (Close to Brisbane). See the GEO site for full details.
The next leg of the Visions of Australia tour of Intimate Transactions in Mildura (country Victoria) and Frankston Arts Centre (Close to Melbourne, Victoria) is about to kick off. Details have also just been confirmed of the showing of the new project Knowmore at the State Library of Queensland Gallery in February 2009.
Shifting Intimacies will be shown in the Cairns 'On Edge' and Brisbane Festivals this month (July 2008):
Intimate Transactions opened simultaneously at the National Art Museum of China and the Beijing Art Museum of the Imperial Palace tonight, 5pm as part of Media Art China's Synthetic Times Exhibition.
Intimate Transactions has been awarded a Visions of Australia touring grant (2008-09). It will also be presented in Beijing China during the 2008 Olympics as part of Media Art China 2008 at the National Art Museum of China and the Art Museum of the Imperial Palace. A third node of the work will be located at California State University, USA.
The interactive installation Shifting Intimacies will be premiered in Australia at the On-Edge Festival, KickArts Cairns, Mon 22nd July – Sunday 27th July 2008 and the Judith Wright Centre For Contemporary Art, Brisbane International Arts Festival, Wednesday 30th July - Saturday 2nd August 2008.
Embodied Media is about to launch its new site - A long time coming and the product of avid documentation practices over many years. I'm proud to say it is Creative Commons licenced under the Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives Rules. Yeah
A major new book based around the practice-led, interdisciplinary experiences of creating of Intimate Transactions is now available - Intimate Transactions Art, Exhibition and Interaction within Distributed Network Environments. ORDER HERE.
My next project is a major new interactive installation work: Knowmore (House of Commons) . This is an important new collaboration with artists Chris Barker, Darren Pack and Luke Lickfold.